failed &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feedhttp://en.wordpress.com/tag/failed/
Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "failed"Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:25:19 +0000http://en.wordpress.com/tags/enhttps://andeverythingwasbeautiful.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/something-went-very-wrong/
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 02:18:37 +0000sandradamotahttps://andeverythingwasbeautiful.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/something-went-very-wrong/Last night, I had the pleasure of celebrating the beginning of Black History Month at a youth organized/led event in one of the communities I work with. It was amazing.

Not that I’m surprised.

I don’t believe there is a limit to what youth are able to accomplish with passion, purpose and the right partnerships/mentors.

I’ve worked with youth for most of my life, in some capacity. Professionally, for the last 14 years.

Before I worked in shelters, I lived in them.
Before I helped people secure housing, I slept on the streets.
Before I told youth the importance of staying in school, I dropped out.
Before I worked for social services, I was dependant on them.
Before I worked with addictions, I went to rehab.
Before I worked with women and children surviving violence, I was a victim.
Before I worked with mental health, I tried to kill myself.
Before I called City Hall my office, I sold drugs outside of it.

Young mother. Eating disorder. Poor. Speaking English as a second language. Child of newcomers to Canada. Single mother. Welfare. Homeless. Drug addict. Street kid. Connected to the street life. Drug dealer. High school dropout. Broken. VICTIM.

I watched my friends die. I watched my friends go to prison. I watched the world, as they watched me, waiting for me to fail again and again. I was everything they told me I would be. Everything and Nothing. Another wasted youth.

But I WAS more than that. I WANTED more than that. I DESERVED more than that. I was BETTER than that!

And so I sought the path that would allow me to accept who I was and what I had done. I wouldn’t allow myself to be defined by others, but I embraced everything I had experienced as part of my journey.

For years, I’ve watched youth workers tell youth that they are better than what the world sees. That they can strive for something greater than what generations before us had. That they can have whatever they want if they put the energy and effort into getting it.

“You’re better than that!”

I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve repeated that line myself.

Last night, I stayed to help clean up after the event. It was held at a Recreation Centre and things got pretty messy. There was a large spill on the floor and I quickly ran to get the mop from the custodian. As I was mopping up the spill, a young girl looked at me and said “Why are you mopping? You’re better than that!”

The only thing I could think to say at the time was, “No, I will never be above mopping.”

And then I reflected on that for the rest of the evening.

After all these years of sharing that message, I realized that something went wrong. We focused so much on encouraging youth to believe in themselves and their abilities, and somehow we failed to explain what that really meant.

“You’re better than that!”

That was never meant to minimize the value of others and the roles that they play. I’m not above mopping a floor, scrubbing a toilet, serving food. I’m not better than anyone.

I come from a long line of general labourers and cleaners. My family, my friends, they did what they had to do to survive. How can I think of myself as better than the people that fed me, clothed me, raised me? What does a belief like that do to us?

Instead of teaching youth to strive to be better versions of themselves, we have taught them to perpetuate oppression. To believe that certain roles should only be held by certain people.

Who, then, is not better than mopping floors?

We have taught them to judge people and their worth by the jobs they hold, or don’t hold. By the things they possess or fail to possess. We’ve taught them that they should strive to be better than “those people”, whoever they are.

We didn’t do it intentionally, but we missed a big part of the message.

We missed the piece where we teach the value of everyone.
Everything.
Every role.

We failed to teach them to think critically about how our class systems were created. About who defined what roles were important and who would play those roles in our society.

We failed to explain that life is about working together to clean up our world, literally and figuratively.

Elliott (right) was named Man of the Match for excelling with both the bat and ball

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

New Zealand all-rounder Grant Elliott scored an unbeaten 64 and took three wickets to help the Blackcaps flatten Pakistan by seven wickets in the first ODI in Wellington.

Elliott was well supported by batsman Ross Taylor, who made 59.

However, Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi and captain Misbah-ul-Haq deserve some credit as they scored 67 and 58 respectively.

New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum would have been pleased with his decision to bowl first after Pakistan lost their top three batsmen with only 32 runs on the board.

Ul-Haq and Haris Sohail stemmed the bleeding with a 49-run partnership before Sohail was caught by Martin Guptill at point off the bowling of Corey Anderson for 23.

Umar Akmal only made 13 runs before he was clean bowled by Elliott.

Sarfraz Ahmed mustered five runs before he was caught by Tom Latham at deep square leg off the bowling of Anderson.

Ul-Haq and Afridi stabilised the innings with a 71-run partnership, during which Afridi brought up his half-century, before ul-Haq was caught by Latham at deep midwicket off the bowling of Elliott.

Ul-Haq’s solid knock of 58 came off 87 balls and included four boundaries and two sixes.

Ul-Haq scored a valiant 58

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

Bilawal Bhatti failed to trouble the scorers as he was caught by Guptill at backward point off the bowling of Trent Boult for a duck.

Afridi ended up making 67 off 29 deliveries, which included nine boundaries and three sixes, before he was caught by Guptill at long-on off the bowling of Adam Milne.

Afridi made an entertaining 67

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

Pakistan were bowled out for 210 when Ehsan Adil was caught by Brendon McCullum at mid-on off the bowling of Elliott for six runs.

Elliott was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets, while Anderson, Boult and Kyle Mills snapped up two wickets apiece and Milne chipped in with one.

Chasing 211 to win, New Zealand got off to an awful start as Brendon McCullum, Latham and Guptill were all dismissed at regular intervals.

Elliott and Taylor finished things off for New Zealand when they amassed an unbeaten 112-run partnership, during which both batsmen registered their half-centuries.

Elliott scored 64 off 68 balls, which included eight boundaries, while Taylor remained undefeated on 59 off 81 deliveries, which included four boundaries.

Taylor hit four boundaries during his unbeaten knock of 59

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

Afridi, Bhatti and Mohammad Irfan claimed one wicket each.

Ul-Haq was gutted to have lost the match, and said: “We lost wickets and in first 10 overs we were nowhere, had no momentum and they bowled really well. We were 70-80 runs short and 280-290 would have been a good score. Really pleased to see Shahid Afridi bat well, he’s bowling too. I’m getting better in the practice games, scored some runs and it was difficult to come after two months but I have scored runs. When you defend this sort of total, you have to try to take wickets but sometimes you give away runs.”

McCullum was ecstatic to have taken a 1-0 lead in the series, and said: “Pretty professional bowling and the fielding was outstanding, probably the best this summer, the intensity was good. The seamers were able to swing the ball today and it’s nice when you get the rewards. Guppi has been playing really nicely, especially in the nets, doesn’t look like he’s [long] away from a big score. Taylor always finds ways to score runs and it was a well-thought out partnership.”

Elliott was named Man of the Match, and said: “Trent, Millsy and Milne were outstanding at the top and I was lucky enough to get a couple of wickets. Never experienced anything like that (Irfan’s bowling), he’s an outstanding bowler. It’s an outstanding environment to be involved in.”

“The ambition still is to play Test cricket, absolutely, but given where I’m at the moment, I think the IPL is the best thing for me”

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

England ODI captain Eoin Morgan has announced that he will be part of the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction on February 16 after he failed to resurrect his Test career.

Morgan opted to miss last year’s IPL season since three Test spots were up for grabs. However, with those spots now filled, Morgan is returning to play in the star-studded tournament.

“I think they [Test ambitions] have been scaled down a bit probably since the start of our summer,” Morgan said. “I suppose the opportunity I gave myself in missing the IPL last year and potential carrot of the end of the road was … I think it was three positions available at the start of our summer, and I didn’t manage to get any of them. So since then it has been scaled down a bit. The ambition still is to play Test cricket, absolutely, but given where I’m at the moment, I think the IPL is the best thing for me.”

Morgan also noted that his teammates need to start playing in more domestic Twenty20 tournaments outside of England.

“I think it’s nice to have one ear to the ground, both playing Big Bash and potentially IPL,” Morgan said. “It’s very useful because again, cricket is changing so much at the moment, it’s nice to have new fresh ideas. And again, opportunity not only for myself but for other English cricketers to go and play, I think they should take it with both hands. It’s a great experience, and like the Big Bash it’s a huge opportunity to put yourself under pressure and bridge that gap between our domestic game at home and the international game.

“I think death bowling’s a big concern for a lot of teams. Given the best death bowlers in the last five years probably have been guys who have unique actions, actually go against the grain of being traditional. And I think a lot of people, a lot of countries, suffer from that problem. The pedigree of bowlers that we have here, obviously everybody prioritises Test match cricket, and they haven’t had the opportunity to come and play. But given if the opportunity was available, I think it would be really good for them to hone in on skills that they wouldn’t normally get to do.”

However, Morgan believes that England’s ODI squad is not suffering from a lack of exposure.

“I wouldn’t say it has hampered our one-day cricket,” he said. “I think the basics of one-day cricket have remained very traditional for the first 35 overs of the game with the two new balls coming in. And again, looking at our batting order down the line, five, six, seven, eight, it’s pretty strong. And given that three of us have played in overseas tournaments has probably helped that. I think a balance of both does work, but the opportunity has to come.”

Oh dear… I accidentally deleted my post from the 28th of January and I have NO idea what it was about!

That has really annoyed me because I feel as if I have already ‘failed’ my challenge which is very sad, seeing as it’s not even February yet. On the other hand, I have managed to re-write and post a replacement :)

I didn’t have a lot to talk about today and I was just going to mention how happy I felt when one of my favourite songs came on whilst I was in the car. I loved how I didn’t even have to think whilst I sang along because it had become so familiar to me, that it seemed to come naturally.

What also made me smile was the fact that my dad sat bobbing his head and singing along to it as well, making me giggle inside. It’s peculiar, in these situations, when you look at your parents and see yourself. It was obvious that my dad was having a great time too and I liked knowing that we experienced that small moment together today.

]]>https://duncankley.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/dysphoria/
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 20:11:08 +0000duncankleyhttps://duncankley.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/dysphoria/Do you know how hard is to life with a body you hate most ?
The body you don’t want right from the beginning .
The body you have been caged to eternity.
The body which trigger your depression
The body , which is preventing you from being you .
It’s beyond your understanding.
What I see in the mirror kill me every day . I don’t want a big fat soccer ball infront of my fuckin chest . My boobs is not a blessing to me , it’s fuckin curse . I never wanted it , all I ever wanted was a flat fucking chest . Binding helps me to cope with my dysphoria but sometimes even binding is of no use . When I look down all i see is a huge mountain instead of flat surface.
Is it my fault ?? Why am I born this way? Why can’t I be happy with my body ?? Why can’t I be normal ?
This world hate trans people and treat us like piece of shits. Learning to love myself in world full of hateful people is almost impossible. I have no one (no friends, family, no nothing) and no one cares about me . People will happy once I’m gone. I’mjust another useless trash I’m giving up .I’m sick and tired of fighting . I just wanna fade away ….

D.A.K

]]>https://thebluesam.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/i-can-do-it/
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:41:22 +0000thebluesamhttps://thebluesam.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/i-can-do-it/While I was queuing to make order for my Domino’s pizza I got a whatsapp message in our class group saying that RESULTS IS OUT! My heart skipped a beat!

With my trembling hands I tried to log in to our school website to check for the results and because I was too nervous I forgot my username -.-! Logged in sucessfully after I calmed myself down and err my results isn’t good and I even failed a subject, but thanks God I PASS overall. So I actually feel relieved rather than sad because I know I tried my very best. At least I pass right?!

I’ll definitely work harder next semester because I need and I want to graduate on time!

Strangely, when President Barack Obama was elected with ease in 2008 and had a comfortable Congressional majority he didn’t really capitalize on his advantage. He may have gotten elected promising ‘change’ but he didn’t make many when he made it into the big seat.

Now, perhaps sensing the end of his term as President, and in spite of the Democrats’ recent crushing defeat, he is becoming ‘Obama the bold’, maker of decisions, changer of things.

Hence his recent decisions to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba and an amnesty for five million illegal immigrants in the US.

JFK imposed the embargo on Cuba way back in 1962, in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In JFK’s day the embargo was America’s way of thumbing its nose at the Soviet Empire. Cuba was less than 100 miles from the continental US and its defiance of the mighty Uncle Sam was an embarrassment, particularly after the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

Curious therefore that Obama cannot see the similarities with Putin’s stance in the Ukraine, but that’s another story.

However, getting back to the Cuban embargo, it was a decision that has been condemned by almost every nation in the world ever since. I think it smacked too much of the big rich kid in the schoolyard picking on the little poor kid.

But, like a lot of things that are half a century old and more, the Cuban embargo was well past its sell-by date. Not least because it didn’t work!

Neither of course did the Cuban system, which failed mainly due to the disintegration of the Soviet Empire that had kept Cuba financially afloat long after Castro’s communism would have bitten the dust if left to its own devices.

In Cuba today there is a realism and a recognition of that very fact. Fidel Castro himself admitted that their model “….no longer works even for us,” when he was speaking in support of his brother Raúl’s “liberal” reforms announced a few years ago.

For the moment, that ‘liberalization’ in Cuba means allowing employees, most of them former civil servants, to become the owners of the small businesses that employ them.

I call that capitalism. What do you think?

Lots of US corporations are queueing up to develop their business interests in Cuba. Big names, like American Airlines, Hilton Hotels and PepsiCo are already in the starting blocks.

It will be interesting to see what happens when the new US regime sweeps into power.

However, I learned one thing.. I have to stop trying. Because trying means opening myself to rejections. And I won’t allow it…Not this time.

-

Tell me something positive guys. Err.

]]>https://glarinerin.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/vyvanse-day-13-the-day-i-took-my-meds-two-hours-late-and-so-heres-me-talking-about-100-different-things/
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:57:39 +0000Erinhttps://glarinerin.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/vyvanse-day-13-the-day-i-took-my-meds-two-hours-late-and-so-heres-me-talking-about-100-different-things/700 AM: I didn’t even get out of bed. I didn’t take the pill until 9 which is sooo going to screw with my sleep patterns now. Fuck me.

Guys I was so freaking close to my own personal Friday the 13th. But alas, today is Thursday, the 13th day of medication and I am sad.

You know what’s weird? When people talk about how their skin is combination or normal or oily or dry, but no one ever clarifies what combination is. How can this combination skin cleanser be good for me if you don’t know my combination? I always thought that combination meant normal/dry. I used to say I had oily skin, but as of maybe last year I think I have combination oily/dry skin. My mom has normal/dry. I asked. Like, my skin on my cheeks will be dry and flaky as hell if I don’t take care of them, but the rest of my face will act like I rubbed bacon on my skin. WTF why is skin so weird?

I don’t have anything to do but I got up and put on makeup anyway. And, I mean, clothes. Like I usually put jeans on and don’t change out of my sleep shirt unless I am actually going somewhere, but this time I got real fully dressed, and put on makeup. Not that me putting on makeup is some massive deal because I don’t typically do more than a tinted moisturizer/bb cream, mascara, and eyeshadow that matches my clothes. I do have foundation, and primer, and a full stock of makeup, but I don’t like how long it takes to put it on so for my “normal” days I pick things that claim to be 10 in 1 items like BB creams. Plus, I have sensitive skin and most of the time I just want to even it out, not make it look perfect.

My F key isn’t working right. Most of the time I have to hit it 3+ times to get the letter F. I couldn’t see anything underneath it making it stick or not depress, so I did the magic air spray stuff? And that didn’t work so I just popped the key off altogether and there’s nothing there! It looks just like all the other keys. It’s not special, it’s not broken, but it sure is acting like it is.

Every time I eat I feel really nauseated afterward. Sometimes when I drink too. And I can’t lose anymore weight and that was supposed to be my secret blessing in disguise of medication. It makes me really sad and frustrated and a little angry that my stomach is rejecting any kind of sustenance, but it also won’t let me lose weight like a normal person who eats less when they are nauseated. Like, screw you stomach. I think it might have to do with my years of Gastritis misdiagnoses and fuck-ups before finally getting a hang of it. That was a mess.

I have nothing else to say so maybe I will post again once this day takes off more. But probably not. Maybe I’ll just talk about something else.

“We’ve either been beaten by a better team, haven’t had the conditions right or have just let ourselves down”

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith believes that the Proteas will continue to be known as ‘the chokers’ during World Cups until they win the tournament.

South Africa have slipped up in the last four World Cups as in 1999, their memorable semi-final clash with Australia ended as a tie, which allowed the Baggy Greens to sneak into the final. In 2003, South Africa fatally misread the Duckworth-Lewis equation during a rain-affected match and, due to that huge error, they failed to make it to the knockout stages. In 2007, the Proteas were crushed by Australia in the semi-finals and in 2011, they failed to chase down a fairly simple total in their quater-final match against New Zealand.

“I just think we haven’t played well in the knockout stages for whatever reason,” Smith told ESPNcricinfo. “We’ve either been beaten by a better team, haven’t had the conditions right or have just let ourselves down. So I think it’s a build-up of various things and unfortunately it’s something they’ll never get rid of until we go on and win a tournament. We made some stupid mistakes.”

“I think it’s always been a light-hearted thing, but as an individual when you get to the knockout stage, the amount of times you get asked that question, the amount of times you read it, the amount of times people say it to you, whether it becomes an internal pressure…I don’t know. It’s something each individual player can own up to, it gets thrown down the South African team’s throats in this tournament so often that you can’t get away from it. It’s about fronting up, it’s about dealing with it, its about saying, ‘Look we haven’t won a tournament yet, we haven’t won a knockout game yet but it’s about facing up and winning’.”

South Africa have enjoyed a lot of success in all three formats over the past couple of months and Smith feels that the national team finally have the right group of players to lead the country to World Cup glory.

“For us, when I look at this year, I feel like it’s a good opportunity for many reasons – we have match-winners with both bat and ball, more than we’ve ever had in the top five,” Smith said. “I think we’ve got a great top five. A lot of guys who can win with the bat. The key changes we have in this line up is that we’ve got attacking bowling, the one that can take wickets and we have an attacking spinner which is a big thing for a South African team.

“I think the challenges are going to be the all-rounders and the middle order but I think outside that, conditions is huge for us. If you look at it, 90% of conditions played in sub-continental conditions and I think the challenge for us is, we’ve got an opportunity in Australia and New Zealand, conditions we’ve done well in, in the last two to three years and I think with the team we’ve got a good chance.”

Speaking about South Africa’s chances of winning the World Cup, legendary India batsman Rahul Dravid said: “South Africa haven’t performed to their potential so if you come up against them in a knockout game, you will have the history that they’re going to be feeling the pressure because they’re constantly being asked about this. And until they win one, they’re always going to be asked because they’ve had some phenomenal signs over the last few years, and you’d think they’d have won a World Cup.

“When I look at some of the numbers of South Africa of the World Cups of the games they’ve lost in the knockouts, I don’t think that they’ve really choked. I think you choke when you find yourself in a winning position and let it slip. Other than ’99 with Lance Klusener, they had a winning position that they found themselves in, none of the other World Cups they were actually in a winning position. They just didn’t play well, they didn’t play up to their potential and that can happen, but as Graeme said, this is a good opportunity.”

]]>https://niallf.com/2015/01/27/failed-journalists/
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:47:32 +0000Niall Farrellhttps://niallf.com/2015/01/27/failed-journalists/A former boss of mine used to refer to people who had done journalism degrees and hadn’t ended up working in journalism as ‘FJs’: failed journalists. These were people who the boss had chosen to make snide remarks about in the office (behind their backs, naturally) for various reasons. I, being fairly naive, chuckled along.

Thinking about it now, of course this ‘FJ’ label is completely ridiculous. Not doing the thing that your first college degree prepared you to do is no real mark of shame (see Radamel Falcao, Brad Pitt and others). But this ‘FJ’ business sort of stuck with me.

Back when I put journalism in DCU down on my CAO, I wanted to be a journalist for two reasons. The first was that writing was one of the few things I was good at, and the second was that I genuinely thought that I could change things through being a journalist. By ‘things’ I’m talking about society as a whole. I had tough teenage years – with two brain tumours and an assault that almost left me dead by the age of 16 – and I think I wanted to stop that sort of injustice happening again.

I had wanted to be a doctor, then a radiologist, then a politician and then a lawyer. I had harboured an ambition to become a journalist, but I was always told that there were no jobs in it. After missing out on my top two choices, I ended up doing the course anyway. That was when I developed this idea of journalism as a vehicle for change.

Journalism isn’t like that, for the most part. It has perks, but they come with pitfalls. There’s no denying that there’s a real buzz about breaking news, and seeing how stories progress. There’s also no denying that there are country-sized egos in newsrooms – although you get these in every walk of life, in news organisations their ego often becomes magnified many times over through their work.

Therefore, this ‘FJ’ label – or, the fact that it still plays on my mind because I *am* an ‘FJ’ now – does my head in. Just because you work in journalism, doesn’t mean that you’ve ‘made it’ in life. In fact, I’ve come to realise that the vast majority of journalists can never hope to affect societal change. The media probably overplay their importance in western society and democracy.

There is no such thing as an ‘FJ’. I may not work in the media now, but then neither do three quarters of my former class. Maybe there needs to be a more accurate reflection of this in journalism degrees – it’d be a start of they gave you more transferable skills, such as broad marketing and communication modules (which come in handy as a journalist anyway).

]]>https://maryberry12.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/the-two-sides-of-me/
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:55:00 +0000maryberry12https://maryberry12.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/the-two-sides-of-me/Taking time to make thing perfect
Taking time to do your best

Tye was named Man of the Match for his brilliant bowling figures of 4-18 off four overs

Image courtesy of: Zimbio

Perth Scorchers batsman Michael Carberry smashed 50 runs and pace bowler Andrew Tye took four wickets to not only beat the Melbourne Stars by 18 runs, but also help their side reach the finals for the fourth consecutive time.

Scorchers captain Adam Voges would have been brooding over his decision to bat first after Michael Klinger and he himself were dismissed in quick succession.

Shaun Marsh and Carberry stabilised the innings with a 68-run partnership before Marsh was caught by Jackson Bird at long-off off the bowling of Michael Beer for 35.

Ashton Turner only made one run before he was caught behind off the bowling of Scott Boland.

Carberry ended up making 50 off 36 balls, which included six boundaries and a six, before he was caught by John Hastings at long-off off the bowling of Beer.

Carberry smashed six boundaries and a six during his knock of 50

Image courtesy of: Zimbio

Sam Whiteman mustered 18 runs before he was caught by Peter Handscomb at square leg off the bowling of Clint McKay.

Nathan Coulter-Nile made a quickfire 22 before he was caught behind off the bowling of Hastings.

Thanks to Carberry, the Scorchers finished on 144/7 off their 20 overs.

Hastings was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets, while Beer snapped up two and McKay and Boland chipped in with one wicket apiece.

Chasing 145 to win, the Stars never really got out of the starting blocks as many of their batsmen made starts, but failed to convert it into bigger scores.

Luke Wright and Kevin Pietersen were the Stars’ top-scorers as they both made 31 runs.

Tye was the most successful bowler with four wickets, while Coulter-Nile and Yasir Arafat took two wickets each and Jason Behrendorff claimed one as the Stars were bowled out for 126.

Anderson was named Man of the Match for excelling with both the bat and ball

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

New Zealand’s batting duo of Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor scored 97 and 96 respectively to not only crush Sri Lanka by 120 runs, but also give the Blackcaps an unassailable 4-1 lead.

Williamson and Taylor were well supported by all-rounder Corey Anderson, who scored 40 runs and took four wickets.

However, Sri Lanka wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara deserves some credit for his valiant knock of 81.

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum would have been regretting his decision to bat first after he himself was caught by Thisara Perera at mid-off off the bowling of Dhammika Prasad for a duck.

Martin Guptill and Williamson made up for the early loss of McCullum with a 59-run partnership before Guptill was caught behind off the bowling of Perera for 28.

Williamson and Taylor kept the runs flowing with a 117-run partnership, during which Williamson brought up his half-century, before he was run out by Prasad.

Williamson’s brilliant knock of 97 came off 95 balls and included eight boundaries and two sixes.

Williamson’s sublime form with the bat continued

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

New Zealand’s dominance with the bat continued as Taylor and Anderson put together a 78-run partnership, during which Taylor registered his half-century, before Anderson was caught by Perera off the bowling of Rangana Herath for 40.

Taylor ended up making 96 off 102 deliveries, which included seven boundaries and two sixes, before he was given out lbw off the bowling of Tillakaratne Dilshan.

Taylor hit seven boundaries and two sixes during his knock of 96

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

Taylor decided to review the decision, but replays showed that the ball was pitching in line and going on to hit the stumps. This led to the third umpire upholding the original decision.

Luke Ronchi scored 13 runs before he was caught by Dimuth Karunaratne at extra cover off the bowling of Prasad.

Daniel Vettori only made three runs before he was run out by Sangakkara.

Kyle Mills failed to trouble the scorers as he was run out by Karunaratne for a diamond duck.

Thanks to Williamson and Taylor, New Zealand finished on 315/8 off their 50 overs.

Prasad was the pick of the bowlers with two wickets, while Herath, Perera and Dilshan chipped in with one wicket apiece.

Chasing 316 to win, Sri Lanka got off to an excellent start as Dilshan and stand-in captain Lahiru Thirimanne amassed a 56-run partnership before Dilshan was caught behind off the bowling of Anderson for 21.

Following Dilshan’s dismissal, Thirimanne and Mahela Jayawardene were dismissed in quick succession.

Sangakkara and Karunaratne stabilised the innings with a 64-run partnership, during which Sangakkara recorded his half-century, before Karunaratne was caught by Mills at mid-on off the bowling of Anderson for 26.

After Karunaratne was back in the pavilion, Sri Lanka’s middle and lower order, with the exception of Sangakkara, completely collapsed as they went from 146/4 to being bowled out for 195.

Sangakkara scored 81 off 66 balls, which included seven boundaries and two sixes.

Sangakkara made a gutsy 81

Image courtesy of: ESPNcricinfo

Anderson was the most successful bowler with four wickets, while Mitchell McClenaghan snapped up two and Trent Boult claimed one.

Thirimanne was disappointed to have lost, and said: “Our concern is our death bowling. We bowled the first 35 very good, but not so in the last 15 overs. We couldn’t get any wickets and we leaked runs. We need to come out of this strong. Our fast bowlers don’t have much experience, especially with Nuwan and Lasith out. Lasith should be okay for the World Cup. This is all a learning curve for the young boys. Hopefully we can get it right for the World Cup. Kumar played very well in this series, but our middle order needs to be more consistent. That is our main concern. We do have another game to make this right and get our confidence right for the World Cup.”

McCullum was ecstatic to have taken a 4-1 lead in the series, and said: “It was a thorough performance today. We came in against a very good SL team. The partnerships we built on the way to 315 was very good, and the bowlers came through in the end as well. Very happy with the series win. We try to be reasonably aggressive at the start, but we do have some quality batsmen who can spend time out in the middle. We have the options and some class players to help us get the balance right. Corey I thought was really good today. Kept running in hard and taking wickets and being aggressive with the ball. Ross went very well and missed out on a big total there. You are never going to be 100% as you do crave that perfection. As long as you strive to keep getting better and have the right attitude then we can do some good things.”

Anderson was named Man of the Match, and said: “You are not always going to get wickets, but today it was nice. Brendon was talking to me quite a bit and backed me up. It was nice to get through ten overs today as well. Feeling reasonably good with the bat, and I thought the way Rosco and Kane played helped make my job easier. It has been really good here in Dunedin. It has been hot so it is nice to see the crowds as well.”

Firmware update for samsung galaxy s3 failed i try to open them it just saids downloading and does How to fully customize your samsung galaxy s3 ′s samsung galaxy 10 failed to update firmware AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 gets minor software update. 55 Comments. Log In to Comment; Register; Sort by Date; Sort by Rating; Stang68Author: Topic: Software update: “Connection failed ” always (Read 2660 times)I keep getting this error: Failed to update firmware due to network or server problem. Try software update via settings > software update &g. Originally Posted by YIKES1412. Hi, I’m trying to update my s3 from 4. 1. 2 to 4. 3.. I was able to download the update ok but when I install it, it only goes to 25% then Samsung galaxy s3 failed to update firmware due to network or server problem. I just got the samsung admire. when i tried to update it said “processing failed “. what Aug 01, 2013 · AT&T has still manage to finally push the 4. 1. 2 Jelly Bean update for Samsung Galaxy S3 firmware info: AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 failed. OTA The Error message is ” Failed to update the firmware. Try again with Kies or contact Samsung “. I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which had firmware 4. 1. 1. Aug 20, 2012 · failed to update firmware due to network or server problem. Try software update via settings > Software Update > Update or try using PC Kies later. Detailed description of how to update the Samsung Galaxy s3 to on my samsung galaxy s3. I have a T999 galaxy , but Update your S3 using Samsung Kies software

]]>https://awordygirly.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/disaster-zone/
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:56:22 +0000awordygirlyhttps://awordygirly.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/disaster-zone/As much as it pains me to write this, this week has been a bloody disaster :( It started quiet well, but that came to a quick end. On Friday I met a friend for lunch, knowing the 2 safe places I could go to get a lunch that is deemed “free” or as close to on the Slimming World plan. However we seemingly forgot that it was Friday, everywhere was packed, we couldn’t get a table so after trying 4 places we ended up going somewhere with a menu that didn’t have one suitable choice so I deviated. On Saturday night I went for dinner and drinks with the girls and even though I resisted desert , the bottles of beer definitely pushed my calorie intake over. Thankfully I wasn’t hungover yesterday but I was STARVING all day long, so I stuck to the plan as best I could but again I definitely went over. Bearing all of this in mind I really have no expectations for any form of a weight loss this week and I’m really pissed off with myself about it. All I can really do is cross my fingers and hope there isn’t a gain and continue on track and basically cop on to myself. Oh and I didn’t go on the date, but I did get attention Saturday night ( the wrong kind) as the guy has a girlfriend , but that’s a whole different blog post :P Weigh in day is Wednesday so I have on more day to hopefully counteract the bad – hope everyone else on a weight loss journey has had a slightly better week than I have :-)

How much do I get for the loss of an arm and a foot under the Alabama Workers Compensation Act?

by Jim Hasser

In Alabama, for the loss of an arm and a foot, you are only entitled to 400 weeks of capped and limited permanent disability benefits. Hardly seems fair, does it? To see if there may be a way around those limitations, go to JimHasserLaw.com, email Jim@JimHasserLaw.com or call 251.343.5081 and ask for a free pdf copy of my book on Alabama Comp Law.

]]>https://thedifferentlifetips.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/second-post-the-annoying-person/
Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:42:42 +0000thedifferentlifetipshttps://thedifferentlifetips.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/second-post-the-annoying-person/Today I went to school with not such a good attitude to begin with because I was hoping for a snow day, which I never got. I woke up cranky, did not get to eat much breakfast, and went off the school early in the morning. In one of my final classes of the day, this one girl would not shut her mouth and I sat right next to her. She kept making beats with her pencil and talking and saying unnecessary things. I wanted to strangle her. Obviously I could not do that, so I told her to shut up severely times which DID NOT WORK. I moved away from her and knew that I would not want someone to tell me to shut up, but I also know at the same time I would never be that annoying! Maybe I should have handled the situation better, but I was in more relief when class was over. Comment your situations that you have experience before, and yes I will reply!
]]>https://maryberry12.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/failure/
Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:49:20 +0000maryberry12https://maryberry12.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/failure/I get my test back
I will not fail
-1
I will not fail
-2
I can’t fail
-3
I won’t fail
-4
I might fail
-5
I could fail
-6
I hope not to fail
-7
I have failed
-8
More than a test
-9
More than a grade
-10
I have failed life

***

I get my test back
I will pass
-1
I must pass
-1
I need to pass
-1
I want to pass
-2
I will pass
-2
I try to pass
-2
I work to pass
-2
I have passed
-2
More than a test
-2
More than a grade
-2
I have passed life